What is WooCommerce? WooCommerce Review

introduce

The WooCommerce system includes a plugin and the company’s library of themes, while also offering multiple payment gateway options, settings for configuring shipping rates, coupon support, email templates, a reporting panel for tracking sales and performance, and more.

WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin in WordPress. It has product list and shopping cart functions and is suitable for online retail stores, B2C malls, B2B display websites, etc.

Basic Functions

Products, Cart, and Checkout Pages

Pay securely via credit card and other methods

Configurable shipping options including flat rates and label printing

Integrate content and commerce on your site through modular blocks

Automatically calculate taxes

Google Analytics, MailChimp, and Facebook integration

Central dashboard for your store (with key metrics etc.).

In addition to the basic features listed above, WooCommerce is fully customizable and extensible:

Choose a design that fits your brand and industry.

Improve your store with free and paid extensions: add functionality and integrate with local and global e-commerce web services.

Inspect and modify any part of the core plugin code.

Modify functionality using hooks and filters.

Built on REST API and Webhooks.

Extensions

WooCommerce has attracted a lot of popularity because the base product is free and open source, in addition to many extensions and plugins. In 2018, there were nearly 330 extensions and over 1,000 plugins for WooCommerce. In addition, there are thousands of paid add-ons for a fixed price. Many premium themes now offer WooCommerce functionality as well as plugins that make the theme framework compatible.

develop

On March 1, 2006, Automattic, a company founded by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, filed for trademark registrations for WordPress and the WordPress logo.

In June 2010, Automattic, a company founded by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, transferred ownership of the WordPress trademark and logo to the WordPress Foundation.

On June 17, 2010, WordPress 3.0 was released.

In August 2014, WooCommerce powered 381,187 sites (17.77% of online e-commerce sites).

In November 2014, the first WooConf, a conference focused on eCommerce using WooCommerce was held in San Francisco, California. It attracted 300 attendees.

As of 2015, WooCommerce currently powers over thirty percent of all online stores and has over 1M downloads.

In May 2015, WooThemes and WooCommerce were acquired by Automattic, the operator of WordPress.com and a core contributor to the WordPress software.

In February 2018, the WordPress e-commerce plug-in WooCommerce announced through its official website that the official version of WooCommerce 3.3 was released.

References

• 1. WooCommerce system: Techcrunch official website [reference date 2018-03-20T16:00:00.000Z]
• 2. The 2015 WooThemes and WooCommerce acquisition: Recode official website [cited on 2018-03-20T16:00:00.000Z]
• 3. WooConf 2014: Wooconf official website [reference date 2018-03-20T16:00:00.000Z]